linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:04:22 -0500
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, 
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] bcachefs: remove redundant assignment to variable
 ret

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 11:52:03AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, it is
> being re-assigned a couple of statements later on. The assignment
> is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> fs/bcachefs/super-io.c:806:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is
> never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>

I'll take this, but - entirely too much of the traffic on this list is
getting taken up by static analyzer bullshit, we need to cut down on
this